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Chained To My Bully Stepbrother (AI Vertical BL Drama)

By Golu
This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat.  The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
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Venus's Groom (Thai Mini-Series)

By Golu
This Thai mini series is bad and full of red flags where you question so many of the protagonists motives, yet somehow you wanna watch it and finish it. This mini series is just 10 episodes of 10 minutes each, but it should have multiple trigger warnings. I thought we were done with rape eat few years back in the BL worlds in the name of love, but I guess not!

Pakin kidnaps a a luxury hotel heir Venus, holding him captive in the unforgiving wilderness. He blames him for making his younger brother fall in love with him and breaking his heart which led to his brother committing suicide. Venus pleads and begs saying that it was his twin brother Saturn who must have done this but Pakin would take none of it. He rapes Venus, makes him do household chores and other atrocities. Meanwhile, the hotel heiress grandmother is worried at where have the town grandsons disappeared and ask her trusted advisor to find them. Her evil niece meanwhile has been eyeing the whole property and is not happy that the grandma plans to put everything in the twins name. Turns out that it was all her plan to have Venus kidnapped. Once she finds out about Pakin's younger brother suicide, she make s Saturn leave the country in fear of his life and tells Pakin that Venus is Saturn. Anyway slowly some kind of bond starts to develop between Pakin and Venus and once the truth is revealed, everything falls in place. Saturn returns to town and apologizes profusely to Pakin for what he did to his brother and in a surprise reveal, turns out that the younger brother is not really dead. The evil aunt gets punished for her deeds and Pakin and Venus get married.

My biggest problem is why did Pakin had to rape Venus in the first place in the name of avenging his brother. There are multiple ways to torture someone or take revenge. But even that aside, the attempt feels a bit amateurish and the whole plot line and everything feels hastily put together. Venus was just a cry baby. How could he not convince Pakin that he was not the right guy. He had multiple opportunities. Then we have Pakin, who is so consumed by revenge that je just doesn't listen to anyone. And why all this drama when his brother is actually alive. The only decent character was grandma's assistant who figures out what really happened with twins and why/where have they disappeared. His love angle with evil aunt's son was a surprise but I guess needed since he uses that to eventually figure out how the aunt was involved. This was one of those shows which likely was conceived 5 years ago and got made now or its the productions teams first attempt at trying something of this sort. Yes, the guys were good looking, so we had something to look forward to. Overall, this would be a pass for me. (4/10)
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